Pictorial life of Andrew Jackson . CHAPTER XVI. THE SEMINOLE -Ji ^ HE -svar-drum was destined soon ao-ain to summon General Jackson^^ to the fields of Florida. He wasonly allowed a short season for re-pose. He arrived at Nashville on _^ the 15th of May, 1815. Some time previous to his arrival he received a message from52 A? 368 THE SEMINOLE WAR. Washington, asking him to proceed to that place, andlend his aid in the organization of a peace establish-ment in the army. His immediate compliance wasimpossible, on account of indispensable duties devolvingupon him in the district under his com
Pictorial life of Andrew Jackson . CHAPTER XVI. THE SEMINOLE -Ji ^ HE -svar-drum was destined soon ao-ain to summon General Jackson^^ to the fields of Florida. He wasonly allowed a short season for re-pose. He arrived at Nashville on _^ the 15th of May, 1815. Some time previous to his arrival he received a message from52 A? 368 THE SEMINOLE WAR. Washington, asking him to proceed to that place, andlend his aid in the organization of a peace establish-ment in the army. His immediate compliance wasimpossible, on account of indispensable duties devolvingupon him in the district under his command. It wasnecessary for him to return to his own fields and hisown pursuits, to cherish his plantation, to care for hisservants, to enjoy the affection of the most kind anddevoted wife, whom he respected with the gentlestdeference, and loved with an almost miraculoustenderness. And there he stood, like one of the mightiestforest trees of his own west, vigorous and colossal,sending its summit to the skies, and growing on itsnative soil in wild and inimitable ma
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